BILATERAL
AGREEMENT
PROGRAM
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amount of fuel to be provided to 40 kilograms,
whereas the other three agreements allow fuel up to
500 kilograms of -235 for the ten-year life of the
the agreement.
Theee are, therefore, for power
demonstration programs rather than for the support
cP power renter:
A significant new provision in the Australian, Swiss, and Dutch
agreements permits up to 6 kilograms of the 500 to be enriched up
to 90 percent for use in the materials testing reactor.
In the case
of the Belgian agreement, it has been agreed to allow them 8 kilo-
grams (apparently for political reasons in order to demonstrate the
preferred position of Belgium).
All agreements require reprocessing of spent fuel elements in the
United States or in facilities designated by the United States.
Recent developments in Europe have been the negotiations among six
coal and steel community regions; Selgium, Luxemberg, The Nether-
lands, France, Italy, and Germany.
DR. BUGHER asked if subcritical assemblies could be made available
under the existing program. DR. VANDER WEYDEN answered that they
could under existing policies
Another question by DR. BUGHER was
the manner in which a foreign university could initiate a request
for a reactor.
MR. TREVITHICK explained that the university should
make its proposal to the Atomic Energy organization existing in its
own country, if one in fact did exist.
If not, arrangements should
be made through diplomatic channels since the AEC would accept such
a request only from a foreign government but not from the university
itself.
DR. GLASS asked the criterion for defining a foreign government as a friendly one.
MR. TREVITHICK stated that, in general, any
country not within the “Iron Curtain" could be considered friendly.
DR. GLASS also asked if there were any comparable agreements between
the USSR and any other country or satellite to which MR. TREVITHICK
answered that the USSR had bilateral agreements with some of its
satellites; including, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Yugoslavia.
MR. VANDER WEYDEN pointed out that in all the peaceful uses of the
atom, the Biology and Medicine programs have been among the first
advances and still are the means by which opportunity and promise
can be offered.
This view was endorsed and emphasized by DR. WARREN.
Admiral Foster and his staff were thanked by DR. WARREN for the
informative presentation.